ANARCHY AND ART: FROM THE PARIS COMMUNE TO THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL

ANARCHY AND ART: FROM THE PARIS COMMUNE TO THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL BY ALLAN ANTLIFF VANCOUVER: ARSENAL PULP PRESS. 224 PAGES. $24.

"When I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any r�gime except the r�gime of liberty.'" By capturing the anarchist spirit in this June 1870 letter, written the year before the Paris Commune, freedom-loving realist painter Gustave Courbet makes an appropriate opening subject for Allan Antliff 's exploration of the relationship between European and American art and anarchist activism. Antliff considers "anarchism as a catalyst for social liberation" and points to the …